Animals

  1. Animals

    A Spider’s Taste for Blood

    Certain jumping spiders prey on mosquitoes that have drawn blood from animals.

    By Emily Sohn
  2. Animals

    Bee heat cooks invaders

    Certain honeybees in Asia use their body heat to kill attacking wasps.

    By Emily Sohn
  3. Animals

    From Chimps to People

    Although chimpanzees and people share many genes, there are key biological differences.

    By Emily Sohn
  4. Animals

    Copybees

    Bees can learn about new food sources by spying on each other.

    By Emily Sohn
  5. Tech

    Roboroach and company

    Cockroaches and lobsters inspire robots that navigate in darkness and track smells.

    By Sarah Webb
  6. Animals

    Who’s knocking?

    Recordings of calls and drumming provide new evidence that the ivory-billed woodpecker survives.

    By Emily Sohn
  7. Animals

    Walktopus

    Some octopuses can walk, using two of their eight arms to scoot backward.

    By Emily Sohn
  8. Animals

    Sleepless at Sea

    Some marine moms and babies stay awake for weeks after the infants are born.

    By Emily Sohn
  9. Animals

    Dolphin Sponge Moms

    Young dolphins learn tool use from their mothers.

    By Emily Sohn
  10. Animals

    Clone wars

    Armies of sea anemones attack each other in raging wars.

    By Emily Sohn
  11. Health & Medicine

    Nature’s medicines

    Projects by young scientists show how plants and animals in nature can be a source of new medicines.

    By Emily Sohn
  12. Animals

    New mammals

    Wildlife biologists have discovered a new type of monkey and an unusual rodent.

    By Emily Sohn